The King's Caricatures
Mar. 16th, 2011 04:22 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
tealinSo I've been taking a caricature class at work, which I suppose has been helpful, though perhaps not as helpful as I need it to be ... but that's another topic.
Anyway, in the last class we were all supposed to take a page of a movie magazine that had been provided and caricature some celebrities. I grabbed the page on The King's Speech.
Was it for Geoffrey Rush?
No ... (though he was fun.)
Was it for Colin Firth?
No ... (I have never understood what women found so sexy about him. He's a brick!)
It was for Tom Hooper!
The minute he appeared onscreen at the Oscars my drawing brain went "WOW!" What a great face! What cool hair! What a great design!
I had a lot of fun doing these (especially the last one) and was, to my astonishment, really proud of the results – we had only about 30 minutes to work on them and it takes me twice that long to get a design I am halfway satisfied with, usually. These ones I really liked, and when I put them up on the board next to everyone else's I was still proud of them, which is even more unusual. I had finally done some drawings that looked like the sort of drawings I want to do! Success is mine!
Then the teacher got to them and gently tore them to pieces. Back to the drawing board (so to speak) ...
Anyway, in the last class we were all supposed to take a page of a movie magazine that had been provided and caricature some celebrities. I grabbed the page on The King's Speech.
Was it for Geoffrey Rush?
No ... (though he was fun.)
Was it for Colin Firth?
No ... (I have never understood what women found so sexy about him. He's a brick!)
It was for Tom Hooper!
The minute he appeared onscreen at the Oscars my drawing brain went "WOW!" What a great face! What cool hair! What a great design!
I had a lot of fun doing these (especially the last one) and was, to my astonishment, really proud of the results – we had only about 30 minutes to work on them and it takes me twice that long to get a design I am halfway satisfied with, usually. These ones I really liked, and when I put them up on the board next to everyone else's I was still proud of them, which is even more unusual. I had finally done some drawings that looked like the sort of drawings I want to do! Success is mine!
Then the teacher got to them and gently tore them to pieces. Back to the drawing board (so to speak) ...
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Date: 2011-03-17 01:01 am (UTC)